The National tribune., 1887-06-30

Planters' 90 100 $3.50 and $500.
Iaclede loo. $500.
Everett House. 100 $3.50.
Barnum's Hotel, loo $780,
Hotel Moser. capacity $50. 81. without board
Hotel Bsrnum, "a 5OOsI
Hotel Rozier. - 500 81 per day.
Hotel O'Neil, 500 81 without board.
ST. James Hotel. capacity 90. $3.50.
City Hotel. capacity 30. sl5O. 500.
Hotel Brunswick. capacity $50 81. without board.
Commercial Hotel. capacity 100. rs cents without
board.
Bristol Hotel. capacity 900 rs cents and 81 with
out board.
European Hotel. capacity 200, 81.
Beaumont Hotel. capacity 100. S.
Grand Central Hotel. capacity 500. 50 cents with
board; meals 35 cents.
Hotel Hunt. capacity 80: so and 10 cents. with
out board.
Hotel Beers. capacity 200; go and $3.50. without
board.
Hurs;'s Hotel. capacity $50; $3.50
Hotel ST. Louis. capacity 500; 80 and IS cents.
without board.
Hotel Gillian. capacity 200; so and rs cents with
out board.
Hotel Emory. capacity 22s; so and 10 cents with
out board.
Arlington Hotel. capacity 800; 80 and IS cents.
without board
Green Tree Hotel. capacity $50: $50.
Heitkamp Hotel capacity $50; $780,
sprague's Hotel. capacity $50: 81. without board
Belvidere Hotel. capacity 300; 81.
Hotel GlenmOre. capacity 100; s. and SO.
Merchants Hotel. capacity 800: 81 and So.
Barwick Hotel. capacity 100; Sl.76.
Cosby Hotel. capacity 100; 500.
Besides these there are private residences
and clearinghouse which expect to receive
guests, and have SO notified the Committee.
They can take care Of 10000 visitors. In
addition there will be tents for the great crowd
of those who desire TO camp out
All these will, we trust, put a great deal of
money in the pockets of st. Louis people.
The hotel-keepers of the city confidently
expect that their accommodations will be
taxed to the utmost, for they stipulste that
those who engage rooms shall take them
from Monday morning, September %, till
the end of the Encampment, and pay for
them at rates based upon the greatest num-
Der that each will hold when sleeping on
cots. A little estimate will show that this
will be quite a tidy thing for the hotel
keepers. For example, the Southern Hotel
says it can accommodate 1000, and expects
to have that many, or get at least pay for
them. It's lowest rate is "a day, which
will make its receipts from GAR. people
$4,000 day, or $4,000 during the Encamp-
ment. We understand that every room in
the hotel has now been engaged at the fig
ures mentioned.
The Lindell's lowest rate is 8 day, and
its capacity 1900, making its receipts $4,000
a day, or So 500 during the Encampment
At this rate it will not take long to figure a
quarter of million dollars out of the
pockets of the comrades into the tills of the
hotel-keepers alone, without taking into
account at least as much more paid to keep
ers Of clearinghouse, restaurants, etc
Then comes the harvest that the railroads,
the street railroads, the merchants, etc, will
reap.
We may be too moderate in our ideas to
suit the more enlarged views of our St.
Louis hosts, but we really think that they
should be content with the cleaning the
GAR will afford for one week. and reserve
the President and the crowd that will come
TO see him for harvesting at some future
date. We do not think it good business
policy to try to "work" both crowds the
same week.